Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-01-13
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Secretary of the Treasury has
appointed Herbert F. Beecher to be special
agent Of the Treasury He is q son of the
Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr, and was formerly
Collector Of Customs at Port Townsend. Wash
ington Territory
The second days session of the In
diana Legislature was attended by a series of
partisan wrangles The Democratic Senate
declined to meet the Republican House in
Joint session to hear the Governors message,
it having come to their ears that
the Republican managers had planned
coup detat to DO sprung upon
the Senate. In consequence, the Governor
did not deliver his message orally, as usual,
but sent printed copies Of it to each branch Of
the General Assembly. The Senate adopted
resolution declaring that that body recog-
nized no vacancy in the Office of Lieutenant
Governor prior to the last election, and re-
fusing to join in the canvass OF the vote
for the candidacy for the Office The Repub-
lcan majority Of the House, in retaliation for
the rules adopted by the Senate, adopted set
of regulations fully as arbitrary as those Of
the upper body. The effect in either house
will be that the majority can summary and
quickly unseat any member of the minority,
wrightfully or wrongfully.
Scott Picker, aged IL, emptied the
contents of a shotgun into tho body of Chester
Dodd aged 10, at Jackson, Tenn, killing him
instantly. triaing quarrel led up to the
killing
Some genuine Manitoba weather was
experienced in sections OF the West and
Northwest last week. At st Cloud and Ait
kin, Mimi, the thermometer registered GU de-
degrees below zero, at Albert Lea 40, at Bis
marck 80, at Miles City, Mont, 30 Through
out Michigan the temperature was 20 to 25 de-
grees below zero
The Attorney General of Ohio has
brought su Is in ejectment against squatters
on canal property in Akron, valued at
s5o0,000
Seven person were killed and several
houses demolished by an earthquake at
Djernel Tunis.
The Russian Government has ordered
large numbers of repeating rifles for the
army, in accordance with the report Of mill
tary commission
Advices received at Madrid from
.
crease the fears of European war.
Prince Alexander authorizes the an
nouucement that he is about to make pro-
longod tour of Egypt and the East in order to
put an end to the rumors that he intends to re-
turn TO Bulgaria.
OF the American registered packages
lost in the Belgian mail robbery Of November,
40 we're found under a sofa in hotel parlor
at Brussels, only fourteen of them having been
r.hed
SENATOR CALL introduced aresolution In the
Senate, on the eth inst declaring that certain
lands granted for railroad purposes in Florida
shall be forfeited, and instructing the Attorney
General to bring suit AGAINST all corporations
braced In railroad grants where bills for forfeit
ure are pending before Congress-. Senator
Sa S
the addition of clause to section D,
which prohibits pooling in effect suspending
that section until Jan. l, 1883, whenever ma
iority OF the commission believe the interests OF
both shippers and carriers would be best pro-
NOTED by permitting pooling. Aremonstrance
| was presented from Dayton (O.) business men
against and petition from the Kenosha, Wis.l
Business Mems Club in favor Of the interstate
commerce. bill. Petitions favoring the ex-
| detrimental agricultural stations bill were
also presented. Bills were passed to
| adjust the claims of any State for expenses in
| CURED in the national defense; for a school Of
| instruction for cavalry and artillery Mt Fort
| Riley and appropriatng $50, 009 for the widow
| and daughter of Erskine s. Allin, the inventor
| of the Springfield breech-loading rife. The
| House passed forty-two pension bills, including
| one granting $50 a month to the widow OF Cen
| eral Durbin Ward. The House also passed the
| Senate bill amending the act providing for the
| sale of the Sac and Fox Iowa Indian reservation
In Nebraska and Kansas. The amendment
provides for the allotment Of lands in severalty
TO milnrR and ornhRna.